Unlike Arkansas, which recently required a non-father to pay child support, legislators in Colorado are drawing the line with a proposed bill that exempts non-fathers from paying child support for other guys' kids.  The intricacies of child support awards are hard to master these days, and no one can avoid the craziness, not even sperm donors. 

Dylan Davis, the a 33-year old at the center of the Colorado legislative effort, didn't get a paternity test for his twins until after he and his wife divorced.  Even though the test revealed someone else was the children's father, he was still required to pay, since the test occurred after the specified time limit. The proposed bill would remove that time limit, allowing paternity testing results to inform child support awards at any time.

But you know what?  Davis didn't deny paternity until his kids were four!  Can you imagine being a 4-year old kid and finding out that Daddy isn't really Daddy? By the time the couple divorced, Mr. Davis had been living with the twins for 4 years. And  while it is absolutely true that he is not the biological father of these kids, I find his ability to cut off ties and stop support breathtakingly sad for the children.  He seems like exactly the wrong spokesperson for an effort aiming to legitimize a longer time-line for paternity testing.